Thornton
TownTown in Wyre, North West.
Thornton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Thornton add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Thornton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thornton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thornton safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thornton at a rate of 64.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 139 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thornton.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (560), anti-social behaviour (262) and other crime (185).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Thornton was 68.6 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Thornton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Thornton has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Thornton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyre 005A | 1,469 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wyre 010A | 1,778 | 51.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wyre 011A | 2,431 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.1% |
| Wyre 011B | 1,710 | 77.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.2% |
| Wyre 011C | 1,375 | 60.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.9% |
| Wyre 011D | 2,406 | 98.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.8% |
| Wyre 011E | 1,421 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.7% |
| Wyre 012C | 1,483 | 60.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Wyre 012D | 1,428 | 58.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.1% |
| Wyre 012E | 2,105 | 36.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| Wyre 012F | 1,060 | 27.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
Your MP
- Lorraine BeaversLabourMP for Blackpool North and Fleetwood
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Thornton1
Middle areas in Thornton2
Towns near Thornton6
Thornton in brief
Thornton is a town in Wyre, North West.
About 20,423 people lived in Thornton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £182,750 in 2025 across 410 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 64.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Thornton was £182,750 in 2025.
Thornton had 19,263 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Thornton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thornton, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.